Pat from Poole

I think Moran's a bit old now, old chap. Still, always a hero for Fratton in 84 and all that.

The top teams by and large dominate possession and have more of the play in the opposing team's third because they have the strongest midfields. Goalscorers get the glory but they only get the chances because of the midfield. None of this is rocket science, but in this League you need tough athletes in midfield. I'm not convinced our players are fit enough either, to be honest.

I wasn't there, but listening to it on Solent it sounded like we really struggled in midfield. Unsurprising with Hammond going off injured, but I really feared the worst when our midfield comprised of Holmes, Wotton, Schneiderlin and James. We did well to get a draw really.

I do like Merrington but he has a habit of repeating exactly what his co-commentator has just said. Other phrases he likes to use include:- "Saints must keep their shape now" (usually when defending a set-piece) "He was too easy-osy." (he used to say that a lot about Rasiak, I never understood what it meant, I presumed akin to being a lazy b@stard) My favourite Merrington memory was when Kosowski played for us, he had the most awful time trying to pronounce his name.

You're talking about £3 million there. Jobi McAnuff is barely worth 20% of that, if he was a consistent performer he wouldn't be at Reading.

Was Pardew a centre-back? I thought he was something of a scuffling midfielder.

I gather that the new range of Cadbury's tins of Miniature Heroes chocolates will contain garage-shaped chocolates, to be called Garaged.

Seriously, if Burnley appoint Brian Laws I will eat my garage.

Unlikely, he's in jail.

Surely you know who Brian Stock is, Taffy? Cracking midfielder.

You would have done well to find any pubs in Walsall that were open. Me and The 9 wanted to watch the Skates v Burnley on SKY at lunchtime and drove past 4 pubs that had closed down before settling for the Saddlers.

A Baggies-supporting mate has just advised me that Coventry will not sell Elliott Ward until they have signed Leon Barnett from West Brom as a replacement. There are however a few clubs after Barnett.

Even though it has a roof, £20 is pretty steep for a terrace in Div 3. No doubt they use the excuse of London pricing, as that turd Bates used to do at Chelsea. It will however clearly be rammed if only 1,200 can fit into it. Looking forward to this one.

Lowestoft is a bit of a hole, but Norwich is a nice city. Definitely one of the better venues for a Saints away game / weekend away.

I would imagine we would be able to offer better wages and more chance of first-team football than Preston. Just hope the latter reason would be the main motive for potentially joining, as it usually isn't!!!!

I was somewhat amused by Sid's recent claim that Taylor is one of the top 5 sportsmen of all time. Very funny. Though I have to say I can see Taylor getting 20 world titles, which must be pretty rare for any sport.

John Motson treats the viewers as if they are 4 years old and know very little about football. Extremely irritating man who I think is also half-blind judging by some of the things he misses during a game.

Completely agree, he's shocking. Sid Waddell is my favourite commentator in sport, the only person who would make me want to watch a match regardless of who the players are. Clever bloke as well. As for football, Barry Davies was my favourite commentator, and I must admit I really liked Ron Atkinson until his Desailly comment did for him. Some of his Ronglish stuff was legendary.

I think you have to look at the teams we beat in those games a couple of months ago or so, they really weren't good sides. Wotton is really just there to kick people.

Tore Andre Flo and Petter Rudi.

I would have agreed with you on that last season but they're a total shambles now. I would really fancy us to beat them if we were drawn against them, their fans would lose sleep big-time at the very real prospect of losing to us when we're two leagues below them.

He really is not that good, some people are talking about him as if he's the next Messi, FFS.

Tommy Smith would not score anything like 30 goals in League 1 or set up the number that Lambert creates. He is a scuffler of moderate ability.

I am still bemused that so many Saints fans don't buy tickets in advance and are happy to pay on the day. They'll rue it if we do get to the play-offs and they miss out on a ticket for the away leg as the Saints ticket office didn't have a log of them having attended away games where they hadn't bought in advance.